[amsat-bb] Sat Track for iPad?

[kevino z]

I will give my two cents. GoSatWatch is brilliant, but could really get some improvement in terms of it's notification interface. For example, you could save an event as a reminder, but it fails to set the date / time of the pass or even the number of minutes ahead of the pass in the reminder.  So you have to manually add the "alert." As far as the built in reminders, they are okay if you have your iPad in front of you. I wish it would interface with calendar better. 

That being said, it is still the most feature rich satellite iOS application I have used, and I have tried SatExPro, ProSat, Satellite Walk, and GoSatWatch among others. What I tend to do is use it to find passes, manually set myself a reminder, and then when the satellite is in the sky, I use the sky mode (or actually another app called SkyWalk) to do augmented reality and make sure I'm pointing my arrow handheld in the proper place.

--Kevin (KK4YEL) 




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> On May 22, 2016, at 07:26, Mvivona via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> I second Bryan's suggestion of "GoSatWatch". 
> I my humble opinion, nothing holds a candle to it. It's not free, but you get what you pay for nowadays. 
> Cheers. 
> 
> Michael Vivona
> Sent from my iPad
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> On May 21, 2016, at 11:04 PM, Dave Mann <cwo4mann at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> May I have recommendations for a good ap for my iPad?
> 
> 73
> Dave N4CVX
> 
> Sent from my iPad
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